FromAncient Greekἀνάπτωσις(anáptōsis,“falling back”), in reference toπτῶσις(ptôsis,“grammatical case”).

• (General American)IPA^(key): /ˌæn.əpˈtɑt.ɪk/

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anaptotic (notcomparable)

1. (linguistics, archaic) Having lost, or tending to lose,inflections byphoneticdecay;uninflected

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• “anaptotic”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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